Royal Oak resident Patrick O’Brien underwent the first single-port robotic mitral valve repair on June 30.

Share on Pinterest Researchers report similar outcomes for two types of heart surgery for mitral valve repair. Suriyapong Thongsawang/Getty Images A new study is the first randomized clinical trial to ...

Corewell Health in Royal Oak says it has performed the world’s first single-port robotic mitral valve repair, a procedure ...

Surgeons at Corewell Health in Metro Detroit have performed what the health system says is the world’s first documented ...

Greg Denning has never really liked going to the doctor, and for most of his life he's been an active person who was able to avoid significant medical care. That started to change one day when he and ...

In a groundbreaking series of surgeries, doctors at Duke Health have successfully performed the world's first living mitral valve replacement, saving the lives of three young girls across North ...

Corewell Health has successfully performed the world’s first documented single-port robotic mitral valve repair, marking a major milestone in the evolution of minimally invasive heart surgery.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A transseptal mitral valve replacement system was approved for patients unsuitable for surgery or transcatheter ...

Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement had a more than threefold higher 10-year rate of infective endocarditis than those at moderate risk for the disease, whereas undergoing mitral valve ...

In patients with a poorly functioning bioprosthetic mitral valve in the heart, a minimally invasive procedure to insert a new valve was associated with a lower rate of death or disabling stroke within ...